Magazine-rifle.



o. A. T. SJGRBN. MAGAZINE RIFLE.

APPLIUATION FILED DBO.14, 1910.

Lll. Patented Ja11.23, 1912.

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CARL AXEL THEODOR SJGrREN, OF STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, ASSIGNOR-TO AKTIEBOL- AGET SVENSKA VAPEN-OCH AMMUNITIONSFABRIKEN, OF STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN.

MAGAZINE-RIFLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 23,1912.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL AXEL Ti-rnonon SJGREN, a subject of the King of Sweden, residing at Stockholm, in the Kingdom of Sweden, have invented new and useful Improvements in Magazine-Rides, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the drawings accompanying and forming a part hereof.

This invention relates to improvements in magazine-rifles and similar fire arms, whether automatic or non-automatic.

The object of the invention is to make it possible to lock the cartridges within the magazine and prevent the same from being pushed into the receiver, thus enabling single cartridges to be brought into the receiver from without, if desired, so that the rifle may be used either as a magazine rifle or as a single-loading riie.

The invention consists, chiefly, in the combination, in a fire arm of the said kind, of an adjustable stop adapted to be placed in a position in which it prevents the cartridges from longitudinal movement, and means for feeding a cartridge from the magazine into the receiver, when the said stop is in inoperative position.

The invention further comprises the construction and combination of parts hereinafter more particularly set forth.

In the drawings, I have shown, by way of example, two constructional forms embodying the invention.

Figures l and 2 show a longitudinal section and a cross-section, respectively, of the rst embodiment. Figs. 3 and 4 show a longitudinal section and a cross-section, respectively, of the second embodiment.

Similar reference letters indicate like parts in all the figures. i

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2 of the draw ings, a is the magazine containing the cartridges, and o is the receiver for the same. Extending from the front wall of the magazine to the receiver is an oblique guide surface c for the uppermost cartridge. During normal conditions the breech-bolt CZ acts on the rear end of the cartridge so as to push the same into the receiver. Journaled in the part bounded by the guide surface c is a cylindrical part, disk or the like e having a cut off portion f. Attached to the cylinder c is an arm or handle g accessible at the lower side of the rifle or gun for adjusting the position of the cut oif portion f of the cylinder c relatively to the guide surface c. IVhen the parts take up the positions shown in full lines in Fig. 1, the cut oif portion f forms an abutment for the uppermost cartridge preventing' same from moving longitudinally. In this case the rear end of the cartridge forms an abutment for the breech-bolt preventing same from moving into closing position.

rWhen the gun is to be used as a usual magazine-rifle, the arm g is swung into the position shown by dashed and dotted lines, by which the cut ofl:1 portion of the cylinder is caused to coincide with the guide surface c so that the uppermost cartridge is free to move along the said surface into the receiver, when operated by the forwardly moving breech-bolt.

In the embodiment shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the part c cannot be turned but is movable longitudinally. Also in this case the part e has a cut off portion forming an abut ment for the uppermost cartridge. Said part is further provided with a pair of recesses It (Fig. 4). When the part c takes up the position shown in Fig. 4, the cut 0E portion prevents the cartridge from moving longitudinally. If, on the contrary, the part c is moved into its other position (indicated by dashed and dotted lines), the recesses L take up symmetrical positions in front of the magazine so as to permit the cartridges to move into the receiver, one after the other. The part c is retained in position by a spring-bolt m placed at right angles to the same and adapted to snap into corresponding recesses in the part e.

I claim:

l. In a magazine-rifle, the combination of a guide surface for the cartridges, means acting to move the same along the said guide surface, and a cylindrical part adapted to be moved in different positions, said part having a cut off portion coinciding, in one position, with the said guide surface and projecting, in another position, above the same so as to form an abutment for the cartridges.

2. In a magazine-ride, the combination of a guide surface for the cartridges, means acting to move the uppermost cartridge another position said cartridge to pass along the said guide surface, and a part through a-recess thereof into position for adapted to be moved transversely to the lonrlng.

gitudinztl direction of the rifle into different CARL AXEL THEODOR SJGREN. positions, said part having a recessed por- Vitnesses:

tion forming in one position an abutment AUG. SoRENsoN,

for the uppermost cartridge but allowing in KARL RUNCSKOG.

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